Series 400

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One of the first terminators designed solely by Skynet as an attempt to produce a cheap dependable platform. It features a primitive optical sensor which served as a prototype for later terminator optics. The T-400 is built from steel / iron as hyperalloys were still unavailable to Skynet at the time of the T-400's introduction. The primary purpose of the T-400 was to emulate the movements of a human so that Skynet could infiltrate underground human bases which were inaccessible to other terminator models. It is rumored that the device on the unit's left shoulder is a plasma gun, however this is untrue, the device is actually a secondary optics unit added to the T-400 series thus compensating for its slow-moving head actuators and featured a laser range system for added depth perception. This unit is slow and predictable, but are usually dispatched in large numbers. They are also the first in the Terminator series to have usable fingers so that they could use human machinery and weapons, though they lacked the ability to actually use this function without instruction and ended up breaking most weapons by using excessive force.

The T-400 had a primitive CPU with no learning functionality and lacked the ability to adapt to its environment.

Despite being outdated by the Series-500 and above, these rusted machines still serve to terminate any humans and are still found as wardens at concentration camps.

Contents 1 Design 2 Alternative designs 3 Appearances 4 External Links

Design

These units were primarily designed to be low-cost soldiers and be able to access human camps where other machines could not, thus they are full of design flaws. Primarily a well-placed shot from a low calibre weapon could easily destroy the secondary optics unit, secondly numerous areas of exposed wiring on the chassis allowed for a human to immobilise the unit, thirdly the T-400's CPU could not calculate advance battlefield actions and an attack from multiple vectors would usually cause the unit to crash. It should also be noted that the T-400 had a limited database and it was possible for humans to anticipate the units predefined reactions.

Alternative designs

Although not having any physical differences, the T-400 had a programmable database which could hold either combat, maintenance or internal routines. Despite the usual combat focused T-400's, maintenance models and 'Loader' models have been found.

The 'Loader' is a nickname given by the humans for a T-400 which has no combat or (friend or foe) FoF system in place and could be easily compared to a forklift, due to its stationary nature. If a human were to pass in front of it, it would not react in any way.

Appearances

• Terminator: Dawn of Fate

External Links

• http://www.terminatorfiles.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=772&sid=9f966f11c2e14b3d715afb793b31d534
• - Fan Fiction page about the T-400